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Article: 100 years of magical thinking.(ARTS & CULTURE)(The MacDowell Colony)(Brief article)
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- Town & Country
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- July 1, 2007
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In 1907 Marion and Edward MacDowell (she was a pianist, he an avant-garde composer) decided to turn their seventy-five-acre New England farm into a safe haven for artists of all disciplines--a place where hardworking (often synonymous with financially challenged), creative people could find time and space in which to develop their ideas. The MacDowell Colony, as it soon became known, was the first residency program of its kind in the U.S. Eventually, the Peterborough, New Hampshire, campus grew to encompass 450 acres--expansive enough to house the writers, artists, composers, filmmakers and architects who spend from two weeks to two months there every year.
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